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Icarus Farthest Star

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2018

Patrick Kelly2 April 2018

Science / Astronomy

Kelly leads the Hubble discovery of the gravitationally magnified star Icarus, then the most distant individual star ever observed.

Names involved

Patrick Kelly

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